One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword
• Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
• The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
• A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
• Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
• It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.